Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So I like many others hit lag storms and the issue I have is when I jump through a gate and warp+cloak there is a big delay. Half the time I will hit cloak just once after clicking to warp, and it will tell me Im still cloaked and not cloak me. Only for me to find Im now targeted and its game over. If I spam it, more often than not, it goes on then right back off again because of the multiple requests.

Something to solve this issue would be a prompt to ask you if you really want to turn your cloak off once its on. This would make it so that us of poor or unstable internet connection can warp and cloak just as well as anyone with a good connection by spamming it from the get-go until it works.

Furthermore this would help for when someone accidentally hits F1 (as is default on most) instead of the escape key or the number one, or like I've caught a few people having done, accidentally clicking cloak. Any number of reasons, it'd be nice to have a warning just like most other things that are going to get you killed give you a warning. With the typical "never show this again" option ofcourse for us who blunder less.

Not for nothing, but with all this high tech awesomeness, they cannot do one simple thing?

The manual cloak should not be blocked by the gate cloak effect.

If you hit the cloak button, just like if you pick a direction, it should activate, and transition between the cloaks.

With players dealing with lag, this goofy game of whak-a-mole being played with a cloaking button needing to be hit at the exact moment the gate cloak releases is incredibly ridiculous.

The last thing I want added is another popup asking me if I'm absolutely sure I want to do whatever it is I just told it to do.

i like this idea aswell but also make it with a do not show this message again in times of frequent decloaking u can disable it :P

PLEASE CCP BRING THIS 2 EVE

Cycle-less modules should have some sort of lagless method of use, particularly since you don't have the cycle time to react to accidental deactivation, and in the particular case of the cloak, being decloaked is a very unfortunate thing. Popups for doing that are... unfortunate, though. There should be a better solution, like the separate "decloak" button. Maybe split cycle-less modules into two semicircle buttons -- one for turning on, one for turning off.



Absolutely not. Cloaks (particularly using the cloak-mwd trick) are already "easy mode" for getting past gate camps. Even with lag, client syncing ensures you don't have to do the silly "whack-a-mole" you describe, because you have these nice and easy F keys: double-click in space, followed by F8, or wherever you put your cloak.

Transitioning cloaks into each other would give gatecamps virtually no chance to catch any cloaky ship unless they have 15 frigates all with clouds of drones following them, all orbiting the gate at the same time -- and that's for the smallest of gates. As is right now, gate campers have a split second to see where the cloaky ship was when it vanished, then a mad rush to try to decloak it. Only the lucky or practiced (and preferably both) can really pull it off consistently. At least let them have that.

Okay, I may have exaggerated the "15" figure, but I have only once been caught while executing the cloak-mwd trick, and that was because of my own stupidity and pilot error.

Maybe you just need to stop jumping into exceedingly competent gate camps